Book Summary
How the Mice Beat the Men is a delightful retelling of a Native American folktale. Students will enjoy reading about how the mice won the war against the men.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions based on text information
• Sequence story events
• Manipulate medial sounds
• Read long /e/ vowel digraph words
• Recognize and use plural nouns
• Identify synonyms

Materials

• Book -- How the Mice Beat the Men (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequence events, plural nouns worksheets

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: said, much, their, were
• Content words: gnawed, strings, bows, feathers, arrows, slings, crept, squeak, war